Thursday, January 21, 2016

Beards may be healthy...

Beards may contain bacteria which could potentially be developed into new antibiotics, a study has found.
Researchers found that clean-shaven men were actually more likely to
harbour infection-causing bacteria resistant to antibiotics when
compared to bearded men.
The study, published in the Journal of Hospital Infection, tested swabs from the faces of 408 hospital staff with and without facial hair.
According to the results, clean-shaven men are more than three times
as likely to be carrying methicillin-resistant staph auerus (MRSA) on
their cheeks as their bearded counterparts.
Clean-shaven men were also more than 10 per cent more likely to have
colonies of Staphylococcus aureus on their faces, a bacterium that
causes skin and respiratory infections, and food poisoning. Read it all.